Employment Relations Act 2004 Explanatory Notes

New section 22D (effect of replacement on appeals and civil proceedings where section 22A(3) not applied).

323.Subsection (2) makes it clear that any appeal made by the employer against the old enforcement notice will continue to stand against the new notice, but allows the employer to substitute a new appeal against the new notice if he wishes.

324.Subsection (3) provides that if an appeal is made against a new enforcement notice when the effect of a penalty notice served in respect of the old enforcement notice has been preserved or a new penalty notice has been served in reliance on the old enforcement notice, the authority of the tribunal to rectify the penalty notice applies and so do the provisions governing the effects on a penalty notice of an appeal against the enforcement notice it is based on.

325.Subsection (4) provides that a compliance officer cannot start proceedings to recover minimum wage underpayments on behalf of a worker in reliance on an enforcement notice that has been withdrawn, but that if proceedings have already been brought by a compliance officer on behalf of a worker before the withdrawal of an enforcement notice, they may continue despite its withdrawal.

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